Optimas in type 44's- still looking for an answer

[Todd Young]

Funny thing about Johnson Controls.......they also make the "Everstart"
battery that you can buy at Walmart. Guess what's under my hood?

quattro + 5 or 8 = fun wrote:
> I did some measuring a while back.  If I remember right, they are to tall.
> Unless mounted on their side.  My sister use to work for Johnson controls
> and told me they are the makers of the Optima.  She was right.  Look at the
> bottom of the page:  http://www.optimabatteries.com/
>
> If I remember right,  Red is regular, blue is marine deep cycle, yellow is
> RV and other deep cycle.  The difference between the yellow and blue if my
> memory is right, is the blue has a higher CCA and the blue has a higher RC.
>
> I hth,
>
>
> Shane
>
>
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>>From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
>>Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:45:21 -0400
>>To: Charles Baer <charlie at istari.com>
>>Cc: 200q20v at audifans.com, quattro at audifans.com
>>Subject: Re: Optimas in type 44's- still looking for an answer
>>
>>At 2:18 PM -0600 10/2/03, Charles Baer wrote:
>>
>>>Optima states that the red and orange tops are identical spec but with
>>>+/- posts swapped relative to each other.
>>
>>Right, yep, knew that part at least :-)
>>
>>
>>>The red ones are BACKWARDS for our t44s and the urQ.
>>
>>Hmm, OK, so to get the terminals as high as possible(w/the battery
>>lying on its side), but still have the terminals on the correct side,
>>you have to do the orange?
>>
>>
>>>  I never seem to
>>>find anyone who keeps orange tops on 'de shelf...
>>
>>I remember Optima was bought up by one of the big battery makers and
>>they became available everywhere the Big-Batt-Co batteries were...
>>
>>Brett
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